Windows Azure BizTalk Services – Latest Updates
A closer look into all the features updates that went into Feb 2014 update of WABS.
Harish Kumar Agarwal
Program Manager - BizTalk Product Team, Microsoft
Harish is a Program Manager with the BizTalk product team in Microsoft. He has been in the Integration space for last 3 years with primary focus on B2B & EAI. Harish also has past experience in in-memory caching & SQL.
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6. Windows Azure BizTalk Services – Feb 2014 Update
Support for EDIFACT Protocol
Improved Azure Service Bus integration
Simplified setup for on premise connectivity
Scheduled auto backup capability
Support for Operations logs
9. Closure
BizTalk services will be updated on quarterly cadence
Introducing Business Process Management shortly
Extensibility is an opportunity for Partners
Notes de l'éditeur
Windows Azure is a broad stack of services that runs in our datacenters globally.
Think of the different services as building blocks. These services can be categorized into three classes –
Infrastructure services which are lower level building blocks,
Data services that provide storage and data management capabilities to apps, and
App services which provide different capabilities to rapidly develop apps, scale and run apps at a global scale.
Windows Azure is a broad stack of services that runs in our datacenters globally.
Think of the different services as building blocks. These services can be categorized into three classes –
Infrastructure services which are lower level building blocks,
Data services that provide storage and data management capabilities to apps, and
App services which provide different capabilities to rapidly develop apps, scale and run apps at a global scale.
There is lot more on horizon and we just need to keep on cranking
Out-of-box extensibility (adapters/verticals)
More authentication support (AAD, SAS)
Unified designer
Portal/VS symmetry
Private cloud
Marketplace
Enterprise service bus
Hybrid development
Application lifecycle
We have release bizTalk services GA today. It is the first version of bizTalk service available to customer. As you saw it already has customers going live on it and using it for their business needs
This BizTalk service is built from ground up for enterprise needs. There were forefront our thought. It is the first service to use dedicated managed approapch. When we talked to lot of enterprise customer Isolation, resource gurantees were at the forefront. This is because Biztalk runs mission critical workloads. Out new managed dedicated infrastructure combines benefits of managed service with benefits of dedicated environements. Provisioning a biztalk environment has never been easier. You go through portal and click through the wizard and you are ready to configure.
We have also made tooling improvements in the schema editor and testing map functionality for developers. Since all of you have biztalk servier, we have also introduced tools for migrating biztalk maps to services and tool for migrating trading partner agrements
It currently supports two scenarios of EAI and EDI. In EAI we have build a new transformation engine. We also allow connecting to data sources using various protocols FTP/FTPS/SFTP/HTTP. As I said earlier, we will be focusing on hybrid scnearios as we believe it will be a reality for long time. Using BizTalk adapter services, you connect to your on-premise systems and using cloud to integrate. we provide out of box connectivity to popular on-premise systems such as SAP, SQL, Oracle EBS.
Since we think B2B scenarios are amenable to cloud, we have done some major improvments in B2B. It supports X12/AS2, TPM portal and APIs . This is an enterprise class B2B solution that we belive customers will love.
As we are celebrating the GA of services here, team has already moved on to next turn of the crank. It is a combination of short term items that you guys should see in lot sooner in the product and some long term investments that we need to do in order to make the solutions solid for future.